Carla Bley & Her Remarkable Big Band - Appearing Nightly

�Carla Bley and Her Remarkable Big Band� � as it says on the cover - recorded live at Paris�s famous New Morning club in a set of new but nostalgically-inflected material. �We couldn�t bring back the past, but this was a chance to pay our respects to the wonderful big bands and great American songwriters that dominated American popular music in the first half of the 20th century�. Warm and witty playing by all of Bley�s cast in charts that bear out Nat Hentoff�s judgement: �Her scores for big jazz bands are matched only by those of Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus for yearning lyricism, explosive exultation and other expressions of the human condition.�